>Hi Terry,
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>>My sense is that outsourced work is tedious, mostly data maintenance stuff. Sure it's cheap - but the customer has to do all the leg work - prototype, specifications -,
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>I don't know about that. A competitor to my last employer outsourced an ASP.NET interface for their flagship product to Indian developers.

How many millionaires have ASP NET projects made here in the US? They're all bench projects! Like working an assembly line -

> In the end, the US company gets exactly what was documented, and perhaps not what they need.

And that was the gist of my response :-) - purchasing agents and IT managers don't make decisions anymore - they're brain dead - they let MS make all the decisions for them. If an IT department cannot think for itself and make it's own decisions - then their departments should empty out and all the jobs should go over seas. Then, companies' will have to use clunky - over generalized applications. That should - however increase the demand for phone solistors, since the autodialers and order entry will go a lot slower!

Creates a whole new job market for them out of work developers - whats the difference between a developer and a programmer?

That was the gist of the article anyway. Of course, it was written by an American developer, so some bias might be involved. <g>

Maybe he be writting for a phone solistation journal soon - or - his next article - waiting on tables in style:-).